. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 382 THE TOOTHLESS The Two-Toed Sloths De- scribed. development. cylindrical molars in each upper row, the first of which sometimes has a canine shape; the lower jaw usually has but four teeth or rather rudiments of teeth. I regard the Two-toed Sloths (Cho- Icepus) as standing among all the Sloth family on the plane of highest They have a rather large head, sur- mounted by a flat forehead, and ending in a blunt snout; the neck is relativel
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 382 THE TOOTHLESS The Two-Toed Sloths De- scribed. development. cylindrical molars in each upper row, the first of which sometimes has a canine shape; the lower jaw usually has but four teeth or rather rudiments of teeth. I regard the Two-toed Sloths (Cho- Icepus) as standing among all the Sloth family on the plane of highest They have a rather large head, sur- mounted by a flat forehead, and ending in a blunt snout; the neck is relatively short, the body slender, without a visible tail; the limbs are long and thin, the claws of the fore pair being armed with two and those of the hind pair with three laterally compressed scythe- shaped claws. Other peculiar characteristics are the plain, soft fur, having no woolly inner coat; the dentition, and the small number of the cervical vertebrae. The Unau or Two- toed Sloth (Cholcepus didactylus) t a native of Guiana and Surinam, attains a length of about twenty-eight inches. The long hair on the head points back- ward, but on the breast and abdomen its direc- tion is toward the back, forming a crest on the spine; it is of a whitish, olive-green gray tint in the face, on the head and the neck; the body is olive-gray, the back being darker than the under parts; the breast, forelegs and shoulders, as well as the lower part of the haunches, are olive brown. The second species embraces the Three- toed Sloths {Bradypus). They are of a sturdy physical conformation; have a small head with an obliquely truncated, hard-lipped muzzle and a small mouth, a very long neck, a well de- veloped, lateral ly-com- pressed tail, and rather short, stout limbs, the paws of which arc furnished both in front and behind with three flatly-com- pressed, scythe-shaped claws. The hair shows a parting on the head, and is directed downward; on the rest of the body its line of direction is upward; the
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